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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Ryan Rothhaar on November 11, 2009, 09:18:00 PM
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Crawled up in my tree at a bright and early 7:20 am this morning (20 minutes after daylight) and as soon as I pulled up the bow I heard a deer coming. A 1 1/2 yr old 3 X palmated 2 came cruising down the hill and walked right in. I suppose he heard me walking in and was checking out the noise. He milled around fooling with a scrape in front of the stand on an old logging road at 10 yards or so for a few minutes then started looking behind me. Shortly I heard another deer approaching with the typical mature buck strutting walk from behind and coming fast. There is a strip of brush maybe 50 yards wide then a standing cornfield behind the stand and I expected morning movement to be from the field into the timber. Anyway, I could hear him coming through the brush but could not see him until he crossed a small stream 15-20 yards or so away. As soon as he broke cover there was no doubt he was a shooter. I only got a couple seconds to look him over - immediate impression "Holy Widerack"...well "Holy Something" anyhow - and he had a corn stalk complete with ear wrapped up in his horns. I shot him as he passed me at about 6 yards and the big Snuffer took out the ticker. He was down in 60 yards or so. Katia and I put our weiner pup Oskar on the track and he followed it up, had some confusion as the blood trail was about 5 feet wide and he wasn't sure if it went north/south or east/west at times. He's a mature buck - 4 1/2 yrs old or better - 23 inches inside spread and 245 lbs with the guts in. Used my old trusty 64lb BW MAII riser / MAIII limbs. Guess I'm on doe patrol now!
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Great buck and dog. Congrats!
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Very nice buck and shot! :clapper:
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Nice Buck....those snuffers make a big hole! Congrats
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Im without words ..
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very nice!! congrats!!! were at in indiana you kill it???
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Congrats Ryan... Another nice one!
Jonathan
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Excellent, Congrats
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Nice buck, congratulations!! :thumbsup: :clapper:
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very nice buck , and shot that is a nice story, Good Luck on the doe!!!!
thanks for sharing :thumbsup:
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What a hoss!
Congrats!
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Very nice!!
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congrats nice buck,was that indiana ohio or iowa?
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dont i feel stupid its right in the headline
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Great buck Ryan, Oskar's getting a workout at a young age.
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Congrats!!
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Congrats bud! Are you hunting IA this fall as well?
How's Dad making out?
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Curt
No IA draw 'till year after next (I drew last year). Nothing down on the farm in IA yet but a couple meat does. Fairly crummy rut all over the Midwest best as I can tell.
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Good Stuff right there !
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Nice buck Ryan! Yes, the rut here in IA is fizzling in warm weather. No big chase scenes around my house yet, but can't be long. Love your Tekel pup.
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Thanks for sharing.
Congrats on a great buck.
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Nice buck Ryan....congrats!
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Congratulation Ryan! Nice buck!
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I think the OBR in Indiana is making a difference. If he had stepped in front of me I would have made him the One. Congrats!
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Great deer. Thanks for sharing him.
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Wow good going excellent story and smart thinking how to train your dog .. on another note you have a double trad gangs Carbon caster looks like you! had to do a double take when I saw you pic . he even wears the same hat! :wavey:
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Wow
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Congratulations Ryan!
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Wow! What a beaut buck! Congratulations!
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That is one of the nicest spreads I've seen.
Congrats!
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Wow!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: Very Nice! :thumbsup:
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Sweeeet!
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Very nice, congrats!
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Fantastic buck Ryan. You are certainly carrying your father's tradition quite well.
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Congrats!!
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Another nice one Ryan! You keep stacking 'em up. Congrats!
Did you get an Iowa tag this year?
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Wooow!!
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wondeful hunt and beautiful deer
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Another great buck! Wow!
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Congratulations Ryan! That's some fine shooting right there! Beautiful buck! You're going to be running out of wall space in the gorgeous cabin of yours! Is Katia hunting this fall?
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Great story and Buck. Congrats..
How old is Your Doxie? I have a Toy Rat Doxie and want to get Her in to hunting.
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That's a nice'un Ryan. Congrats... Jeff
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Great buck! Congratulations :thumbsup:
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SNUFFERIZED
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Nice job Ryan, nice picture too :thumbsup:
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congrads thats a beauty :thumbsup:
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That's a giant for sure...Congrats to you.
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Wow that some serious rack! Congratulations
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real nice buck man congrats!! :clapper: :clapper:
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Very nice! I would like to train a dog to blood trail but my deer are so few and far between I am afraid the dog would forget everything between lessons. :p
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Congrats on an awesome trophy! Call that buck widetrack!
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Nice Buck Ryan!!
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Very nice. Congrats!
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Congrats!! The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree!!
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Congrats on a great buck!
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Wow! Great deer, Ryan!
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Thanks for the good words, guys.
MG - He's 16 weeks and we've been working with him several times a week, since we brought him home at 7 wks, on artificial tracks. He's tracked 2 easy deer so far as well. He's from European hunting bloodlines and has taken to the tracking right off.
Blackstick - Yep, I agree 100% about the OBR helping us out. I started to see a big difference 3 yrs ago, then my area got hit with EHD bigtime and set it back a couple years. Last year was good, this year better as far as I'm concerned. I've been hunting these areas for 11 years now and am seeing continuing improvement.
Interesting followup to the buck.....This morning I took a walk through the edge of the bedding area - about 1/3 mile from where I killed him, on the other side of a 40 acre briar patch. I generally stay out completely until spring shed hunting, but as I'm done buck hunting I thought I'd take a little sashay through the core area. Found a dozen or so cedars tore up from 4 inches up to the one in the picture - that's my Widow MA 64 inch bow and that cedar is an honest 11-12 inches in diameter. I guess I know where some of the bark in his burrs came from!
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That is a bruiser.
Congrats
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Nice buck Ryan. I like the pic of the cedar rub. I love finding rubs like that!
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Congrats!
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OOOOfffff !!
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Good stuff, congrats to you and Oskar!
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Congrats :thumbsup:
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great buck and nice story, Ryan. You make want to get a pup and train him for blood trail too.
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Great buck Ryan and nice shootin!! Man I love my Snuffers. Was that the 160 Snuffer?
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Congratulations on a great buck...I really love those wide "character" racks!
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Congrats on a great buck Ryan :bigsmyl: and it looks like Oskar likes him too :thumbsup:
Tracy
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Holy Mollie! Are you pulling legs with that rub?
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Nice buck, Ryan!
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Can you imagine trying to sneak around, through thick cover, with something two feet wide on your head? Its bad enough with a hat.
Great post, great photo`s, and great puppy.
We have two mini daschounds at our house. One is a fatty, and one is an athelete. They HATE it when it is time to clip their toe nails, and they get mad at me for a week afterward.
Congrats on the buck, and the pics are great. We could turn back the clock, and it could be 1950.
That kind of style lasts forever!!!
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Way to go Ryan. Thats great man. The acorn dont fall far......
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way to go Ryan , that is one sweet buck :thumbsup: